New cube build! Again!

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Here’s an attempt at a few close ups of some corals that were easy to get to.

 

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Well my nem in that last pic was about 5-6” now I have two 2-3” nems.

 

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Well here I am sometime later with an update... lots of changes to the tank, wife thinks I’ve lost my mind. Maybe I have a little, but gone a completely different route with things. Get ready!

 

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So even though I dip and give corals a good once over before they go into my tank I had ended up with maybe the worst case of vermetid snails and aptasia known to man! So between my bryopsis outbrakes that I was treating and snails / aptasia I was trying to nuke out I crashed my tank. Got so fed up I almost shut the whole thing down! But alas I didn’t and here we are with a restart of my 60 cube.

 

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So I fragged, cleaned, and inspected everything I could and put that and my fish in a holding tank, while I started removing rock and sand. Pulled out all equipment and cleaned everything including tank and overflow spotless. Let everything dry and air out for a little while I decided on new rock scape.

 

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For the new rock scape I used a mix of stax rock and Marco shelf rock.

This is how it turned out, a lot more open with plenty of swimming room

 

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Purchased a few new upgrades for the restart also:

 

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Looks good with the aquatic life T-5’s

 

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My wife bought me a DOS and a Trident for Christmas, so that’ll be going on also! She’s an enabler but then wants to make fun of my reefing obsession lol

 

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Aquascape is in and tank has been cycling for about a week now

 

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Yes it’s bare bottom again! I think that I like the look of sand as far as being more “natural “ but I can’t stand it when it doesn’t look pristine, and I can’t spend that much time cleaning a sand bed so... I moved one of my Gyres down to the bottom of the tank behind the rock work that randomly pulses to keep everything suspended and filtered out.

 

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Everything testing good, tank has cycled, adding my fish a few mini colonies and frags from my other tank. Keeping an eye on params real close for a few weeks.

 

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Trident and DOS installed. Looking good

 

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Everything running really great so far I’ve placed a lot of my frags that I had rocks are almost completely covered in coralline and started with a few pieces of SPS. Fingers crossed.

 

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Everything is running great having a little trouble keeping nutrients up actually. Removed the fuge and light and added more rock to my sump.

 

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Here’s a few updated pics

 

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I’ll try to get an updated FTS shot up this week.

 

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No FTS yet but added another fish and a clam. One spot foxface, he’s a little fellow so is the clam. I’ll try to get some photos this weekend when I’m home while the lights are on.

 

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Well foxface is doing fine, my wrasse ate the clam so... I know not to spend anymore money on those. Started feeding more in hopes of getting a little better color.